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For a time, words may encourage and inspire, but if you cling too long to a teaching, any teaching, it will blind you to your own life, your own being, your own truth.
— Robert Saltzman
It is not what happens but the way it happens.
There are infinite manifestations of drinking a glass of water, chopping an onion, sweeping the floor or sitting doing nothing.
Some years back, Charlotte Joko Beck was asked by a reporter whether, after all her years of spiritual practice, she had eliminated her neuroses.
Joko said, "No, I haven't - but now they're funny."
This is a test post from Wordpress on the web.
It seems like the only way to get #tags through to the Fediverse is to do this:
#tags #Fediverse #notright #fail #error #ohwell
Not what I want to do at all.
Very odd. I have two Wordpress blogs both of which are identically hooked up to the Fediverse. One of them posts it’s Wordpress tags to the Fediverse and the other one doesn’t. I have no idea why. 🤷♂️
And looking back at older posts from one of the blogs, the posts on the Fediverse used to include a link back to the Wordpress post but more recent posts don’t. More weirdness. But, hey, maybe that’s the Fediverse for you.
Nothing to see here. Just another #tags test.
Looking at the recent election in the USA it’s hard not to get caught up in the all pervasive hysteria both in traditional media and on social media.
When I venture to see what’s going on I tend to wonder, slack jawed, at the seismic shift taking place right underneath well, everything.
Up is down, left is right, every previous norm is back to front. The world is different now. There is no way back. To change course will mean a further, new and different course again, not going back to the future.
This is happening and I wonder how we far we have to go before a genuine alternative emerges.
Just as the right (whatever that means now) has prevailed with a motley crew of misfits, so the left (whatever that will come to mean) must find a genuinely new and authentic voice that can be heard to which the majority of people can actually relate.
Good luck to us all.
Yes.
Stillness, the open awareness of what simply is, would appear to be all that is needed: only to give up all of our effort and striving, and quite plainly and naturally rest in the vast openness of what is – which is all we ever were or could be. It really is that simple.
Simple presence
Self-continuity is a sparkling chain of mirages, of emptiness.
— Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
People write some awful shit on social media no doubt.
People also write some self righteous virtue signalling crap too.
This looks good.
Alan Watts is always good value. He brought levity and a mischievous playfulness to otherwise rather earnest subject matter.
Giving this a go tonight.
Two days of solid rain forecast.
Here come the floods…
It’s bloody hot in here!
Right, so #tags in the body text come through but not when added in the Wordpress editor. Mmm, thinks…
OK, testing #tags as they dont seem to coming through…
Testing, testing… hello Fediverse…
Coming to you live from Wordpress land.
Well, hello…
What are you afraid of losing when nothing in the world actually belongs to you.
— Marcus Aurelius